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17 year old Nigerian girl stabbed and burnt to death in Russia
A 17-year-old Nigerian girl Forester Samson (pictured above) was stabbed and burnt to death in Moscow, Russia by yet to be identified Russian gangstars, according to a report by Sunday Sun. Find the full report below
Sunday Sun gathered that she was murdered by yet-to-be-identified Russian gangsters. According to a family source, the perpetrators went further to lock her body in a room and set it ablaze. Though, the police took her to the hospital, it was rather futile.
The source revealed that Forester was sponsored abroad by one Mercy who is suspected to be trafficking Nigerian girls on the promise that she would assist them with decent jobs in Russia. The teenager without hesitation, but with the approval of her mother jumped at the offer with high hopes.
According to the deceased’s elder sister, Sonia Samson, they got a call from Mercy, on Tuesday March 4, 2014 that Forester had died in an inferno. She added that the family was later told that Forester was stabbed before being set ablaze.
Sonia said, “Her madam is the one that called us on Tuesday and told us she was locked in a room and set ablaze by some unknown Russians. She told us that she was rushed to the hospital, that they were treating her.
“Later that day, she also told us that she was initially stabbed before she was burnt. Not too long after, she told us that she was dead. The madam said she was not the only victim in the attack. She said there were five other Nigerians, that another one died four or five days after the attack.
“My sister died mysteriously, just as another sister of mine was also killed by armed robbers. Sincerely, I am confused because I don’t know why all this is happening to us. Particularly for me, it is so painful that I don’t really know what to say or do. This is a difficult time for the family and I believe we need to be more prayerful more than ever before.”
The late Forester, who would have been celebrating her 18th birthday on March 30 hails from Igbekhue in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State. She completed her secondary education in 2013.
Forester’s father, Friday Osazuwa Samson was killed four years ago in Benin by suspected armed robbers. He was shot in broad daylight in front of his shop at Upper Sakponba. Until Friday’s death, he was a successful businessman, a distributor with Sona and Bendel breweries.
Siblings and other relatives of the late Forester’s father are worried and pained by circumstances surrounding how Forester was lured into traveling to Russia, which they described as shady. Recognizing the fact that she did not travel to Russia for further education, even as they were not also informed of such plans, they are calling on concerned authorities to wade into the matter.
They are accusing Mercy of human trafficking and calling on National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to investigate the activities of this said Mercy. They also want the Nigerian Embassy in Russia to as a matter of urgency unravel the mystery surrounding the death of their daughter.
The dastardly act took place on March 3, 2014. Since the news broke, the entire family has been thrown into mourning.
Sonia, who still finds it difficult to believe that her sister was gone, lamented that Forester’s death was too painful for her to easily accept. To her, she would have better been dreaming and be glad that the story was not true.
Meanwhile, Forester’s uncle, Mr Saturday Samson Osazuwa accused Forester’s mother of conniving with the said madam (Mercy) to deceive and persuade the teenager to travel abroad. He queried why Forester’s mother, Elizabeth, decided to hide his niece’s whereabouts from him. Saturday, who now acts as a father figure to the children since their father’s death, said the mother refused to disclose where Forester was, even as he insisted on seeing her.
The mother was aware that Forester had traveled abroad. Not just that, I believe she was part of the arrangement that her 17-year-old daughter should travel abroad. It is really unfortunate and wicked of her to have taken that decision.
“If my brother, her husband was alive, he would never allow such a thing for any of his children. What was Forester looking for in Russia? Was it to go there and school? Certainly not. Now, she has caused the entire family pain and sorrow. The girl was beautiful and intelligent. I still cannot understand what she was sent to Russia to do at her tender age.
“For more than five months, her mother was dribbling me whenever I wanted to see Forester. I sent for her to come and see me on a number of occasions but they kept telling me that she was residing with her mother’s relatives in Benin here only for me to receive a call from them that she was dead in a fire accident in Russia. This is the girl that they kept telling me was in Benin. Until her death, the mother refused to tell anybody in our family. If she thought that the children belonged to her alone, that is where she’s mistaken.”
Also, an uncle of late Forester’s father, Mr Evabayekha Christopher, described Forester’s mother as callous. He wondered why any reasonable mother would send her own daughter abroad for monetary reasons.
His words: “What exactly will Forester be doing abroad when she was supposed to be studying at the University of Benin or any other higher institution of learning in Nigeria? What she did is unacceptable to every member of our family.”
America Summons Northern Leaders Because Of Boko Haram
19 northern state governors from Nigeria are presently in the United States holding a three- day talk meeting with top officials in Washington over the Boko Haram insurgency and security issues in the country, and also to review strategies in polio eradication in northeast Nigeria, among other issues.
The workshop is coming on the heels of worsening security situation in some parts of Africa, with emphasis on Nigeria which in the most recent time has been grappling with brazen terrorism, even as the previous week had been turbulent for Nigeria with over 500 persons reportedly killed by members of Boko Haram sect in Borno and Katsina states.
Governors of Sokoto, Borno, Kano, Adamawa, Alhaji Magatakarda Wamakko, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Admiral Murtala Nyakothe are among the participants of the talk shop which holds between March 17 and 19.
Some of the governors, who arrived yesterday Sunday, took advantage of their early arrival to get support for their states from Bill Gates, World’s richest man.
The governors are meeting with the White House/President Obama; US Congressional Leaders; National Intelligence Council; Gates Foundation; EU and US Developmental agencies and others.
Nigeria: Immigration pockets N520 million from job seekers, as Interior Minister blames applicants for deaths at recruitment centres
Mr. Moro said the job seekers were
to blame for the stampede that killed over 13 applicants.
Angry Nigerians have called for the
minister’s resignation, alongside the comptroller of Immigration Service, after
seven applicants died in stampedes in Abuja, while at least four died in Port
Harcourt and two slumped and died in Minna, Niger State.
Unconfirmed reports say the total
figure of casualties is higher.
Hundreds of thousands of applicants
arrived at test centres in all the 36 states and Abuja, leading to stampedes.
In the Federal Capital Territory
alone, more than 60,000 candidates filled the national stadium venue of the
recruitment exams, and were allowed access to the venue through only a single
doorway.
Speaking in Jos, Plateau State,
where he inspected the exercise, Mr. Moro said the applicants should blame
their “impatience” for the stampede and the deaths.
Angry youth stone Governor, others, disrupt APC rally
The youth
were protesting the imposition of a candidate on their local government
Hundreds of angry youth, on Sunday,
in Nasarawa local government area, disrupted the All Progressives Congress,
APC, campaign rally towards the local government elections fixed for March 22.
The youth, who threw stones at the
podium few minutes after the state governor, Umaru Al-Makura was about to
deliver his speech, claimed they were protesting the imposition of a candidate
by the party.
The youth had, during the primaries,
selected Tijani Ahmed as the party’s candidate. But they are now accusing the
party of imposing another candidate, Abdullahi Ibrahim.
The aggrieved youth came to the
venue of the rally, Government College, Nasarawa, with stones in Ghana-must-go
sacks and vowed to vote against the APC candidate at the polls.
They ignored repeated appeals by the
state governor for calm.
Most dignitaries ran away as the
crisis escalated, with few people sustaining injuries as a result of the near
stampede.
Although security operatives at the
venue of the rally were able to control the situation by unleashing tear gas,
many attendees at the rally however left the venue for fear of more trouble
from the youth.
Eventually, the angry youth were
forcefully dispersed and the rally continued.
Meanwhile, during the flag-off the
local government elections campaign in Toto local government area, Mr.
Al-Makura appealed to the people of the state to vote for the APC at all levels
to guarantee their future.
He said only the APC has the
manifesto that would bring meaningful gains to the people.
Mr. Al-Makura said his administration
would create additional chiefdoms in the area to give the people a sense of
belonging.
“Our administration has in the last
one year been able to impact meaningful development by bringing government
closer to the people through the creation of development areas,” he said.
A senator representing Nasarawa West
district, Abdullahi Adamu, said the APC would sweep the 2015 general election
and called on the people not to waste their votes.
Mr. Adamu said that his defection
from the Peoples Democratic Party, had brought an end to the party in the
state.
Suspended CBN Governor, Lamido Sanusi, responds to allegations of financial recklessness
The suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has issued a statement responding to allegations of financial recklessness leveled against him by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria and the Nigerian presidency.
In the lengthy statement distributed to the media early this morning, Mr. Sanusi denied any wrongdoing, saying he had already sent a detailed response to the presidency.
Read his full press statement Click here
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